We’ve seen for years The Nintendo Grand Crusade against piracy, with a large number of lawsuits against ROM sites and chip makers and distributors for their consoles. Although undoubtedly one of the most recent and well-known cases was the one involving Nintendo Switch and hacker Gary Bowser (not to be confused with King Koop and Mario’s arch-enemy; not even Dough Bowser, the current president of Nintendo America), the Japanese company recently won a few months ago.
A case that has become a headline again. And it’s because they recently escaped some statements from this court in which Bowser was sentenced to three years and ordered to pay an exorbitant amount of cash as a fine, underlining some of Nintendo’s own statements, which directly ran into the release of an updated Nintendo Switch model against piracy.
Collected statements shared from the Axios website stated this “We had to start from Nintendo a new version of our hardware in response to one of these hacking toolsand this adjustment included countless technical hours and adjustments to our global production and distribution chains and, of course, adequate resources. To be clear, these effects are a direct result of the defendant and the Xecutor team attacking our technology protection measures. “
Although, unfortunately, there are no specific changes contained in this special model, it is still surprising that this update comes in the form of a hardware change, thus limiting its presence to only a portion of the entire Nintendo Switch sold.
And this is because it has not been specified when this change would take place, so due to the absence of further information from Nintendo, it is impossible for us at the moment to know what the company’s action periods are.